How to Use self-regulate in a Sentence

self-regulate

verb
  • Some stores self-regulate and hold themselves to a higher standard, Moody said.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Recent guidelines the court issued to self-regulate are paltry at best, and non-binding to boot.
    Lourdes Rosado, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Advocates say that tech platforms can no longer be left to self-regulate.
    David Goldman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But since there is no government in this part of the world, enforcement is self-regulated.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Explore what happens inside the brain during times of stress and how to self-regulate your brain and bodily states.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • Greenfield believes the burden cannot be on kids to self-regulate their social media use.
    Aria Young, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • In recent weeks, talks have hit stumbling blocks over the extent to which companies should be allowed to self-regulate.
    Reuters, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Often, she’s found that her clients share these posts out of impulse or to self-regulate, but doing so can result in even more shame or regret after the fact.
    Isle McElroy, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • When the strike ended, as with the WGA resolution, many questions remained: Could studios be trusted to self-regulate?
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Both then and in past remarks, Roberts has emphasized letting the court self-regulate instead of allowing another branch to step in.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023
  • For now, that leaves providers and the industry to self-regulate via AI assurance, which Cambridge is helping develop.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Brain scans of people who spend time outdoors show their prefrontal cortex has more gray matter plus a stronger ability to think clearly and self-regulate stress and anxiety.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The utopian liberal dream of a self-regulating market never emerged, Polanyi argued.
    Karl Polanyi, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • These critics claim that companies are in a race to capture the AI market and can't be depended upon to self-regulate and mitigate known risks amid stiff competition.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
  • There are a ton of grounding techniques—box breathing, exercising, doing a mindfulness activity like a body scan—that can help you self-regulate in the moment when emotions run hot, Lurie says.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 10 June 2024
  • Another 82% do not trust tech executives to self-regulate the industry.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 4 June 2024
  • Those concerns reflected those of Father Benanti, who does not believe in the industry’s ability to self-regulate and thinks some rules of the road are required in a world where deep fakes and disinformation can erode democracy.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers say the findings show a need for government regulation of social media since the companies that stand to make money from children who use their platforms have failed to meaningfully self-regulate.
    Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Your son’s body is sending him signals related to his environment (too loud, too quiet, too wet, too dry) and his need to sensory-seek is his best approach to self-regulate these impulses that are coming from inside the body.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Real people are living a vision of the economy as a place of moral action and accountability, rather than a value-free, self-regulating zone of unalterable laws.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Being very young or old, or having an underlying health condition such as heart disease or poor circulation, can also affect your body's ability to self-regulate, says the CDC.
    NBC News, 16 July 2023
  • As a result, companies are left to self-regulate, and the only documents governing the relationship between them and consumers are the privacy policies and terms and conditions set by the companies themselves.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Instagram Stories The states’ final allegation is that if young users attempt to self-regulate their social media usage, Meta discourages them with features that keep them addicted.
    WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
  • These are self-regulating and energy-efficient, but require regular maintenance to replace the wick.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2023
  • This phaseout should extend to offsets created in the growing voluntary market, which is entirely self-regulated.
    Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
  • For example, Eric Schmidt has argued that governments currently lack the expertise to regulate A.I. and should let the technology companies self-regulate.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 28 June 2023
  • The beloved Australian marsupials are dying from rampant chlamydia, a naturally occurring disease in koalas that helps them self-regulate their population.
    Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
  • Casanova added that self-regulating strategies like meditation can help calm the body’s fight-or-flight response, especially when the sympathetic nervous system is activated.
    Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Alliances and organizations are emerging to help companies self-regulate.
    Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Alliances and organizations are emerging to help companies self-regulate.
    Paul Hudson, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024

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